Memory is nothing but language. In a province written off years ago, a voice searches for the girl called Antigone. The city awakens. It remembers. It enters and leaves the dream. Its fragments echo. They linger for a while. Then they turn to dust.
The award-winning author and screenwriter Kyriakos Haritos (State Prize for Children's Literature 2023) writes a folk tale inspired by the myth of Antigone, directed by Olia Lazaridou. Avoiding the linearity of a text familiar to many, The Solitude of Thebes moves both forward and backward. It takes the form of a tirade and a song.
The narrative, sometimes in rhythm and sometimes in prose, converses with music performed live on stage. Actors and musicians form a dream band, sometimes speaking, sometimes singing, sometimes chanting, transporting the audience to the ground of a place full of fragments of memory like grave goods.
The performance is in conversation with the opening production of the festival in Epidaurus (Sophocles' Antigone, directed by Ulrich Rasche).
Credits:
Directed by Olia Lazaridou
Music composition: Jan Van Angelopoulos
Yann Ageland Angelou Angelou: Angelos Mentis
Lighting: Elise Alexandropoulou
Movement: Nikoletta Xenariou
Nicolina K. Nicolina K. Nicolina K. Nicolina K: Yannis Psalidakos
Assistant director: Ariadne Kostanakopoulou
Sound recording: Nikos Kollias
Cast: Olia Lazaridou, Alexandra Kazazou, Vassilis Tryfultsanis, Yannis Psalidakos
Production Executive: Apparat Athen / Nikolas Hanakoulas
As part of the Athens - Epidaurus Festival 2025.
